The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-08-17

occupy the pulpit in the Christian church
next Lords Day morning and evening. All
are urgently requested to go and enjoy these
services.
The following letters remained uncalled |
for in the Paw Paw postoffice for the week
ending August 10th: Chas. w. Beck, Mrs.
DR.. David Brown, Mercy Clark, Mr.. Abram
Lewis, j. N. Sternes.
Kalamazoo county grange will hold a SEES
sion at Eureka grange hall on Thursday of
this week, commencing at ten O'Clock, sharp.
A fine literary programme has been prepared,
and all patrons are invited to be present.
The trial of Sol. Curtiss for assault and
battery, before Esq. Mason on Monday last,
resulted in conviction and fine amounting
to S20.40, including costs. In default of the
payment of such fine, Sol. was lodged in his
old home in the cooler for sixty days, unless
he sooner pays up.
brief note from Father Wernert dated
at Paris, France, conveys the information
that he had pleasant voyage across the At
lantic, free from sickness, and that the trip
is likely TO improve his shattered health.
He has our best wishes that he may be able
to return robust and vigorous as in days of
yore.
The boys Indignantly deny having stolen
any watermeons as was reported, but OH the
contrary, went to the house and asked to
buy them and were told to help themselves
which they proceeded to do, and that, too, III
the presence of the owner. If the boys re-
port be true, and they all tell the same story,
there certainly was no cause to accuse them
of theft.
A grand excursion and basket picnic to
South Haven will take place on Friday,
August 26th, under the auspices of the Pres
byterian Sunday school. Fare for the round
trip, 500. A limited number only can be
taken and, as the invitation is to everybody,
the first that come will be first served. Tickets
for sale at the Savings Bank and Jay Cum
ing's store.
The opera house was we'll filled on Monday
evening, to witness, for the first in a long
time, the old, time-tried drama, 'Ten Nights
in a Bar-room." M. $. Wilson as Sample
Swichel is far above the average, and little
Christina as Mary Morgan made a decided
hit, as did also Joe Morgan, the drunkard.
The other members are good in their parts
and, take it all in all, the entertainment was
well worth attending.
One of our Nebraska friends writes, 1--WE
are grieved at the fact that your Glendale
correspondent is again asleep or that some
misfortune must have overtaken him-per-
haps the dry weather of which we read so
much in your valuable paper and of which
we are sorry to learn. We, or the contrary,
have had Just enough of rain and our crops
look fine" Our Nebraska friend mistakes
the sex of our q. c. He is a she.
AS advertised, the Paw Paws went to Otsego
last Friday to play return game of ball and
TO assist the Acorns" in the dedication Of
their new grounds. 1t proved to he an off
day for our boys, who were quite weak, hay
ing TO 90 without Lee, one of their pitchers,
while Briggs labored under great difficulty
on account of the hard usage ne had received
at Lawton on the previous day There are
several other excuses that might be MADE tor
the defeat of the Paw Paws, the principal
one being that Otsego played an almost
faultless game while our boys played-well.
chestnuts The score was thirty-three to
five in favor of the home club. The game
ended with three cheers given by the Otsego
people for Covert, the umpire.
Did you see il? that tall. slim, slender
looking guy that has been making our streets
hideous with its chin music, and that wears
n straw stack cufed up to q peak for a
"dicer?" 1t was the cause of good deal of
fun for the kids, affording them a fine target
for spoiled apples. They say they don't
know whether it was CRASHED or not, but
they tried it on apples all the same. It's
occupation was two fold; principally the
dishonorable one of drinking poor whiskey,
which il had down to fine point, and, incl
dentally, the honorable one of cleaning
chimneys, which it followed when sober
enough to attempt it. Il now languishes in
durance vile at the Cross Bar Hotel" sent up
for thirty days on q charge of disorderly con-
duct. 1t proves to have been one of Sheriff
Montague's pets, from Kalamazoo.
County Clerk Myers has received from the
secretary of state his first installment of
blank marriage licenses, i'll accordance with
the new marriage license law, which goes
into effect September 26th, 1887. The fol-
lowing are some af the most important fea-
lures of the law: 1.-The person applying
shall give his full name, age, color, place of
residence and number of times either of the
parties may have been previously married,
and shall make affidavit that they are compe-
tent and legally entitled to marry; and any
person applying for marriage license who
shall swear to a false statement therein, shall
be guilty of perjury and shall be prosecuted
therefor under the general laws of the state. >
Any county clerk who shall refuse to give a
license To persons properly applying and
legally entitled to be married, shall be pun
ished by fine of not less than twenty five
dollars or more than one hundred, or in
default of payment, by imprisonment in the
county Jail for a term of thirty days" ANY
clergyman or magistrate who shall join
together in marriage, parties who have not
delivered to him properly issued license, or
who shall violate any of the provisions of
this act, shall DO adjudged guilty of a INSIDE
meanor and shall be punished by fine of
one hundred dollars or, in default of pay
ment, 10y imprisonment in the county Jail
for term of ninety days" ANY person
whose duty it shall be to return a marriage
certificate to the county clerk and shall neg
lect to return the same, shall be adiudged
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be pun
ished 10y fine not exceeding one hundred
dollars or ninety days imprisonment or both,
in the discretion of the court